Corona High School - Yearbook (Corona, SD)

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CLASS PROPHEGY As I guided my F86 Sabre Jet onto the landing strip at Corona Central airport, my heart was in my mouth. All the way from Japan I had been wondering how many of my old classmates I would find around home. I received landing instructions and came down to a neat three-point landing that surprised even myself. Boy, these last 20 years in the Air Force had really taught me something. And how the town had grown! As I reported in at the information office, I heard an angry yetbfamillar voice come over the intercom. It said, nWho was that crazy boob that just came in handling that plane like a tr1cycle?u Then I recognized the voice and rushed past the guard and into the office that said nprivate' above the door. There, 1n'a very plush chair, with his feet on a rich ma- hogany desk sat my old pal Ly. Gen. Ralph Seehafer! He explained that he had Joined up with the Air Force a year or so after I had, and had applied for a Job close to home so he could farm in between missions. He took me in his private helicopter and after showing me a b1sd's eye view of the town and new school he plunked it down right on top of the fanciest house in town!!! Two little girls came running up through a trap door on the roof and grabbed him and called him Daddynfi After meeting his beautiful wife and eating my fill of her cooking we set- tled down for a good long chat. He hadn't heard of any of our school pals except that he thought Verda was working down in Missouri and thought that I should try to get a job in the states too so, as he put it, we could keep within a few thousand miles any- way. The next morning after a delicious breakfast I re- fueled and took off for St. Louis,M1ssourl. I was hamper- ed by gog and had to put down at Kansas City instead. As I was eating lunch in a small cafe not far from the air- port, a very ritzy looking lady sauntered ln. A French poodle was leading her as would a St. Bernard. Apparent- ly he d1dn't like my looks because he came over and bit me so hard I fell off the stool. While she was -agologizn ing and I was trying hard not to get angry at suc a well mannered lady, a fine gentleman walked in right behind her and said UI've parked the car right out front, Ann, did you order our lunchnd r Ann? Did he say Ann? Why sure enough, here it was my old schoodmate Ann Fenhaus. What was she doing? Well, she and her husband Jaques were leaving for a n-vacation in Paris on her husband's luxury liner. We lunched together and I was pleased to find that Jaques was running competition with Michelangelo in the world of Art, and that Jakie and Janie, their twins, were starring at different night clubs with sxhLb1t1on.ba1let.

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Ann d1dn't know where any of the classmates were but as she put it, 'It would be tres bonne Just to see them a ain.n g After seeing them off, I took my badly barked shin and hobbled to the nearest hospital to see what they could do about the sweyllng. That confounded cur!!! While I was sitting in the waiting room, I heard the worst scolding going on in one of the rooms that I have heard since Mr. Jordre gave me my last one for putting spitballs on the ceiling. I asked an intern who passed by what was going on. He said it was just the new head nurse, who always told off patients who came to her with such minor ail- ments as cuts and bruises: must be Irish to have a temper like that I remarked to myself. After that I d1dn't know if I'd have her look at my leg or not. Well!!! She couldn't have been more Irish if she had floated all the way from good old Dublin! It was Verda Pew!!! She didn't recognize me at first and just gave me a royal going over for not coming sooner remarking, Ulf you were going to walt this long why did! nt you fix it yourself?W She fixed it up forwme,thodgh,swlth atoms stuff that really hurt and I told her so. She told me it was just the germs calling for HELFI When I signed a blank at her desk4 ---- well, did she look! Recognizing me immediately she apologized for the scolding. I noticed she was wear- ing a diamond as big as a prune and when I mentioned lt, she merely blushed and said, UHe's in o1l.U She explained that it wouldn?t be too long until the happy day but there would still be nursing to be done, because she was to be head nurse in her husband's private hospital for his employees. Verde hadn't heard of any of the old schoolmates but planned on looking them all up when they went on their honeymoon. I left the hospital then, and went to the airport to get a report on the weather and look around. The tower told me that the fog would raise by morning or early afternoon. The field was clear of all transports except one that had just made the last leg of its flight and had flown on instruments all the way. I watched them unload and thought how we had done just that, when we went on our SKIP DAY when we were seniors. I also remembered that Dorothy Schulte had wanted to be a stewardess ..... Wonder if she ever attained the goal? Well I d1dn't have to wonder long because strolling out of the plane and across the runway came the stewardess herself, Dorothy. She explained that she was riding the regular flight from Los Angeles to Kansas City. We had supper together and she explained that her stewardess's career would he drawing to a close because Wsomeonen back homen had been